....So, someone had died? For someone that constantly talked about killing, Tarlotte didn't look happy about the ordeal. But, then again, she didn't seem all that upset, either. More than that, she hardly even focused on the matter for very long at all. There were another few moments of silence from her once more, her expression unreadable until she finally bursted out... Again.
"Mew cares?! This is boring!" she exclaimed, thrusting her fists downwards with her tail rampantly swishing in protest. "I want cake, dammit, not some stupid 'trial'! You dumb humans and bears are making me sick, mrow! I'll eat you all up if I don't get some cake-- Meow, meow, meow!--"
And the wild ride was back.
@RIP
....So, someone had died? For someone that constantly talked about killing, Tarlotte didn't look happy about the ordeal. But, then again, she didn't seem all that upset, either. More than that, she hardly even focused on the matter for very long at all. There were another few moments of silence from her once more, her expression unreadable until she finally bursted out... Again.
"Mew cares?! This is boring!" she exclaimed, thrusting her fists downwards with her tail rampantly swishing in protest. "I want cake, dammit, not some stupid 'trial'! You dumb humans and bears are making me sick, mrow! I'll eat you all up if I don't get some cake-- Meow, meow, meow!--"
And the wild ride was back.
@RIP
"How about you take a sec to take a breath to calm down?"
Lapis figured that having someone go all ballistic and out to attack anybody, well, it wasn't a great thing to have right now. She saw what Monokuma was capable of, and seeing how Tarlotte wanted to beat that bear up, that was a definite "no" on Lapis's part.
@Hospes @BarrenThin @york @Others
Zinnia couldn't help but let out a laugh at his words. She winked at him and stopped moving.
"Oh, you liked it? You want another one? Then come here~" she said, her tone playful. Clearly, she was up to something.
@The Tactician
"Yes, because your strategy to defend the enemy who was likely not even capable of intelligent thought, a person who punched another person's head clean off without even a word, worked so well. And I believe that other than the residents of the camp, whom we unfortunately didn't get to mourn for very long, we bus-waking people managed to get out without life-threatening wounds. And if you must know, I was attempting to extract information from the then-witness, but I decided to go along with her shenanigans to assuage her grief. Witness she was, but she was also a person too."
Her tone remained as cool as ever, there wasn't any visible sign of Kyoko being riled up. If she was angry or even irritated at all, she did well at hiding it. It was as she believed; irrational emotion led to irrational decisions. And there were plenty of irrational emotions flying around to be avoided.
"I may not be perfect, but until someone else decides to step up, someone whom the others can agree is a better fit, I'm the best we have for now. You're more than free to criticize me all you want, and you can freely choose to follow your own path, but I suggest you at the very least realize the folly of acting on your own accord. If you're not going to respect me, at least respect the other survivors around you, perhaps as you would Genji. It--"
Oh.
Now, that was something.
The sight of Morikubo, who was usually so meek and fearful, was defending her. But she was pushing herself to be out there. She wasn't used to these kinds of situations, Kyoko could assume, that involved these kinds of heated talks. It certainly must be scary for her.
Even she didn't know what had compelled her to act. Perhaps it was something that she found relatable about the little girl, perhaps she reminded Kyoko of something from her past, or perhaps she was just plain touched by the normally cowardly girl standing up for someone she believed in. Either way, the young woman would let out a sigh, and then...
Pat pat.
"That's quite enough, Morikubo-san. You did enough. Just don't cry... You have to keep strong," Kyoko said in an unusually soft tone, patting Nono's head with her gloved hand, the girl's podium right next to hers, thus the two of them already standing closely together in the first place.
The vulnerability of this kind of person... In a strange way, she almost envied Nono.
But this was hardly a time for that.
"Now, are you done yet? A person with such an open heart should take a pause when making an innocent little girl cry like that," Kirigiri continued after clearing her throat, briefly glancing at Rant again for a brief period of time.
"If so, it's time to finish up that honey, Monokuma," Kyoko followed up, now diverting her attention over to the monochrome bear, who was likely reveling in the mischief that had happened over the course of the trial, "Snack break is over. The jury doesn't have anything more to add, I'll assume."
Phelps was practically speechless by the whole ordeal meanwhile.
Now he remembered why he was glad this city wasn't under his jurisdiction usually.
@ShiroKiyoshi @Atomyk @Crow @ClassTrial
"Morikubo... already has people like that in her life... here and back home... that's why Morikubo wants to do the same... even though it's impossible now... Morikubo won't be young forever, and will be an adult eventually... so..."
Zinnia laughed.
"Oh boo, you're no fun, Jack! You shouldn't know me so well. I can't even play tricks on you! It's not fair! I'll get you for this!"
Zinnia suddenly lunged at Jack's legs, trying to pull him down on the ground with her. She was so busy with goofing off that she didn't take the time to reply back to Morikubo.
"Yeah... that's my name... sorta."
Throughout this entire mess, Lapis never bothered to meet up with the rest of the people present, such as Genji. He seemed pretty okay in her book so far. Ever since she obtained that injury in that fight the night before, Lapis had been noticing how people were harboring some worry for her, knowing that she had taken a heavy blow in that fight and the next day she appears all fine and well. She couldn't tell if it were the remnants of her power still active in her body or something else, but it also added to the confusion on why she was remarkably still alive.
"Besides, I don't think I'll need any... rest. I never got any rest... to be honest."
A strange pounding in her head as she started to remember a certain night a few years ago, Lapis started to ramble on, but immediately shook her head when she realized that she was talking on for no reason. She didn't need to expand on that all of a sudden.
@york @Hospes @BarrenThin
Hearing his laugh made the lorekeeper smile. Seeing him happy or laughing always filled her with joy. And teasing him was fun too, it was just a shame that he always saw right through her antics. When he moved down to her level, Zinnia let go of him. "I can tell you're just playing along now! There's no fun in teasing you if you don't resist," she explained, flicking him on the nose.
"In case you wanted to know that badly what I was going to do, I was probably just going to lick your cheek or something to try and freak you out. But that probably wouldn't have worked anyhow, huh? You're too comfortable around me. I just can't freak you out anymore!" she said with a sigh. She scooted over to Jack and curled up by him, leaning her head on his arm. "So, for now, I give up. Ya happy?"
@The Tactician
